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TIL: Someone built a working 16-bit computer using nothing but the basic Minecraft building blocks

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D17lr TIL that on the set of Star Trek: Voyager, the costume for 7 of 9 required the actress to wear an extremely tight corset underneath the visible uniform. The corset made it impossible for the actress to sit, was difficult to remove, restricted breathing, and using the restroom took up to 20 minutes.
KOEa TIL the word awkward may be related to the Great Auk, a relative of the penguin. Which means socially awkward penguin just took on a whole new meaning to me.
o96R TIL Germany secretly placed a weather station in Canada during World War 2. It wasn’t discovered until the 70’s.
R694 TIL in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States.
v1j8r TIL Female Greenland sharks reach sexual maturity at age 150.